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Adult Male Elephants have the longest and largest tusks of all elephant species. The tusks grow around 18 cm every year. African Elephants have a much larger tusk than their Asian counterparts. They can grow to upto 3 meters in length. They can weigh around 90 kilograms or so. The asian elephant tusts are much smaller and weigh around 40 kilos. The Tusk is nothing but a teeth that has grown out of the skull. Just like a human teeth, it is made of calcium and other minerals. It is used as a display of size and strength and sometimes during fights or to bring down a tree while feeding. Females usually have a very small tusk or no tusk at all.
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What substance is an elephants tusk made from?
ivory
What is the substance that forms an elephants tusk?
Ivory is the commonly used name for the substance of an elephant tusk.
What material are elephants tusk made into?
IVORY
How do you use tusk in a sentence?
The Asian elephants tusk was bigger than the African elephants tusk
How do elephants kill things?
Elephants kill thing by using their tusk. Tusk are made of ivory which is very strong which makes it eaisier for them to kill things. They also use their tusk as weapons and shovels.
Why elephants have tusk's?
they have tusk because they need to defend them selfs hi savannah
Is a rhino's horn and elephant tusk made of the same substance?
No, an elephant's tusk is ivory, while a rhino's horn is made up of compressed hairs.
What is main ingredient of an elephants tusk?
ivory
What do the elephants use there tusk for?
they use it as their hand.
Why elephants have long tusk?
to protect themselves
What is the name of elephants big teeth?
the tusk
What are elephants tusk for?
piano keys
